O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.

What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

Ephraim'shall say , What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.